>> ordinance amending the green building requirements for the design and operation of city buildings. chairperson mar: johanna parton is here from the mayor's office. this will strengthen and rename our existing green building task force and create more sustainable buildings in the city. let me ask if ms. parton can give the presentation. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, chairman and committee members. thank you for your leadership on green building, and for your diplomacy at the sunday streets. chairperson mar: you were very good. >> you are very generous. thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the mayor on this item. the ordinance before you will update the municipal green building code to require leed gold certification for major municipal projects over 5,000 feet. currently, only silver is required. we currently require gold for all commercial projects. this would update the code to require the same things for our municipal projects as well. this ordinance will continue to secure san francisco's leadership and the good work and we are doing to reduce our carbon

. -- jade green, city grids, the last bite of an ice cream cone. these are all my names. i savor these words on the tip of my tongue. a book of lives lived in my right hand. i caught your pen in the other. all the rivers flower into the sea. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> next up is -- next up is marcela ortiz. >> ok. this is the first time i'm reading in front of people. ok. all right. this is a poem to my mom. you're nothing but a group of coffee klatching women. 19 years and the only image that i can think of what i hearl my mother's voice is rosie the riveter with her hand balled up in a fist and her hand underneath her face. coffee klatching women? a bunch of old grandmothers who sit in sewing sirgles and talk about the best blueberry circles. we banned my mother from the kitchenen -- because of an incident where she had burnt water the the only person who cooked was my father. please keep your peace, mom. yes, my mother say woman but coffee klatching? the term was worse than nails on the chalk board. oh, yes, a coffee klatching woman who has raised three childr

accreditation given to successful members in 11 city departments to help with the high-performance project. the ordinance was created through the assistance of the green building task force. it has representatives from 10 city departments including the airport, transportation agency, utilities commission, the division of building design and construction, and infrastructure design and construction, the apartment building construction, recreation and parks department, the san francisco public libraries, the port of san francisco, there is also one member of the public that is part of our task force. i look forward to successful adoption of this policy. we will continue to work with all departments to continually improve our building environment. i would be glad to entertain any questions you might have. supervisor mar: if a project is below 5000 square feet like a clubhouse being renovated in the parks department, you utilize maximum leed strategies but it may not be bold. >> that is well put. we're trying to keep from greeting to the different clauses of construction. certification is an important and strenuous exercise, but we're not putting a require

the green city program, this proclaims this day peter berg day, in a celebration of his life. the first environmental commission was started, and i was here with the first generation. this is one of the early works that helps to create the commission on the environment. >> colleagues, i have two items. the first as a resolution authorizing the mass transit authority to look into the early termination agreements. this is something we have to discuss -- this will be done at zero cost to the city of san francisco and they will head off the very expensive consequences if the stay in place. the investors involved in these transactions, as we are all painfully aware, we have gone through two financial crises. if the ratings slip, we will be forced to answer into a much more expensive contract to early terminate the agreements. these are the dire financial consequences. introducing the ordinance along with the comptroller's office, i want to thank the director, along with the co-sponsors, earlier this year, i had called for a hearing on the use of participation here on city hall. i w

>> this is a very green city, very environmentally focused, and we have 12 people living there, and eight of them have their own laundry machines, and it would probably make sense to have a central laundry area as opposed to having all of these going the same time in a building that is 120 years old, and all of this extra weight on the decks, it just does not make any sense. commissioner garcia: so are you offering to put in laundry facilities for all of the people prince >> all i am trying to do is make the repairs to the deck. there are homeless and the deck. i have not had a chance to assess this. the building has other repairs, but i am just trying to get through this notice of violation, and i do not want to sit here and make commitments as to what i can and cannot do until i can get into the building until a confined out what facilities are available, what space is available. commissioner garcia: how do you feel about allowing them to continue to have those moderate facilities after the repairs? >> there is issue of the decks being blocked. there is not adequate space. wendy's decks

i want to welcome you to san francisco, which was recently named the greenness city in north america. this gathering is the perfect opportunity to renew our push for the future that is independent from foreign oil, and to take the steps necessary for a more secure, sustainable, and prosperous future. we're doing our part here in san francisco. san francisco is proud to be a transit-first city. we favor using public transportation or walking or riding bikes to get around town. our transit-first policy promotes public health, build community, and because of 100% of our public transportation system is powered by either carbon-neutral electricity or by a diesel, is significantly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. we're also building the infrastructure necessary to put in place state of the air public transportation such as high- speed rail and electrified caltrain system, expanding or subway network and bus rapid transit. high-speed rail, as many of you know, needs to be a part of our transportation future. many of you are already under way with high-speed rail projects in your respec

. >> and eric brooks representing san francisco green party and our city. i have a quick disclaimer. neither i nor any of the organizations i represent have received a penny and never will receive a penny from local power. there is no relationship like that. to get to some specifics about the work itself, just to put it in context the first part that june referred to that we need the sfpuc is largely a task of gathering information, voluminous information about pg & e and sfpuc and its rate pairs, etc., so that it's a huge amount of information that has to be crunched and then more work needs to be done to scope out the entire -- they were talking about scoping out the entire city for a full buildout of renewable and hundreds of efficiencies in hundreds of mega watts. in sonoma county, just that beginning part of getting rate pair information and analyzing that data that component all in itself cost $300,000. and sonoma has a similar size rate base as san francisco does. so i know you got sticker shock on this but the reality is this is what it takes to hav

supervisor mirkarimi: this is a common sense law that tries to walk our green proclamations in making the city more cost conscious and more green sensitive. we have elections almost every year in san francisco. at heavy cost, we send out election booklets every year as well. if we can help create a new consciousness, that is what this law intends to do. supervisor kim: aye. supervisor mar: aye. supervisor mirkarimi: aye. supervisor weiner: aye. supervisor avalos: aye. supervisor campos: aye. president chiu: aye. supervisor chu: aye. supervisor cohen: aye. supervisor elsbernd: aye. supervisor farrell: aye. >> there are 11 ayes. president chiu: this ordinance is passed. please call items 8 through 13, which have to deal with the selling various groups and councils. >> item 8 repeals the outdated reference to the telecommunications commission. item nine dissolves the drug abuse advisory and city what alcoholism advisory board. i contend dissolves the presidium neighborhood representative work group. -- item 10 dissolves the presidio neighborhood or group. items 11, 12, and 13 dissolve the crimina

. >> item 25, ordinance amending environment code to update the green building requirement of design, construction and operation of city buildings. supervisor chiu: supervisor mar? supervisor mar: thank you, president chiu. colleagues on your desks are a minor amendment to the green building requirements for city buildings ordinance. i want to thank joe anna from the mayor's office and others for bringing this ordinance forward with my office. the minor amendment i believe is non-substantive. at page 16, line 21, the legislation provide that the new lead gold certification projects will apply to projects where the initial appropriation request is submitted to the board of supervisors after september 1st, 2011. i am nearly changing the date to november 1st, 2011 so that the ordinance is not retroactive. thank you, and i encourage your support of this important measure. supervisor chiu: supervisor mar has made a motion as he has suggested. seconded. it passes. colleagues, can we do this same house. >> as amended mr. president. supervisor chiu: this is passed on first reading as amended. >> item 26. ordinance aed mending

this is the most significant projects to be impacted by the question of who will perform the green jobs for our city. last week, the board of supervisors received a key letter signed by over 20 environmental justice and community work force groups requesting a hearing to help guide green job creation -- each of our partners and labour and i will be helpfully -- i will hopefully be sponsoring a hearing. i'm introducing an ordinance that would allow the city to craft its own policy with respect to green jobs and other jobs created for which the state has not yet weighed in with complete labor standards and wage rates. the ordinance is designed to give guidance to the office of labor standards enforcement as to how we should proceed on these projects when the state has not set guidelines for when the state has suggested certain types of work are multi-craft. i hope we can hear from the city and from advocates about how we can use this new framework to install solar panels again and guide the energy-efficient work in a way to protect workers' standards on public-works while creating more jobs overall fo

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the point that not only the tower, not only this man-built edifice here is a symbol of the city but also the green space on which it sits and the hill to which is rests. to understand them, you have to understand the topography of san francisco. early days of the city, the city grows up in what is the financial district on the edge of chinatown. everything they rely on for existence is the golden gate. it's of massive importance to the people what comes in and out of san francisco bay. they can't see it where they are. they get the idea to build a giant wooden structure. the years that it was up here, it gave the name telegraph hill. it survived although the structure is long gone. come to the 1870's and the city has growed up remarkably. it's fueled with money from the nevada silver mines and the gold rush. it's trying to be the paris of the west. now the beach is the suburbs, the we will their people lived on the bottom and the poorest people lived on the top because it was very hard getting to the top of telegraph hill. it was mostly lean-to sharks and bits of pieces of houses up here in the be

because i don't think the city does a very good job with green jobs whatsoever. and the reliances on this program to deliver green jobs then i would hope that that component be well applied to this particular contract or with another contractor. ms. miller? >> yeah, there is a co ponent of the development of green -- component of the development of green jobs that was submitted and is part of task seven and eight. so it's in the body of the -- of the document. it's not a separate line item. it wasn't separately numbered. >> but what i'm saying is it didn't wow me. it didn't wow me at all. we have gone through p.u.c. we've gone through recurrent energy. we've gone through the solar city contracts. we have gone through -- i cannot tell you how many dozens and dozens of hours of debate through the budget committee and board of supervisors and being with the understanding that this would yield green jobs. and i still don't think the city has come to scratching the surface of yielding jobs for disadvantaged communities. it's frankly underwhemming. so in this case what

green who's a second generation built the truckdaro club house. there was a hotel then. it was said this was the place to go if you were weary of the dirty city and the police. there were a couple of gun fights the front door has bullet holes. i don't ever repair them. 1931 stig mond bought the property from the green family. she donated it to the city of san francisco and had a specification, i'm giving it to the city that will be used forever for the enjoyment forever of the people of the city of san francisco. it has ever since. every summer the stern grove association in san francisco rec and parks put on 10 free concerts. usually people come out at 10 in the morning it's a family affair. everybody is on the lawn with picnics and it's free. anybody can come out. it's a great way to spend a sunday. >> goes to 1-2 in the afternoon and runs until 5. [music]. thanks to the stern grove association they renovated the concert meadow. it used to be a rolling grafsy area. put in a new stage and stage building. they put in terraces. we get from 8,000 to 12,000 people. and the meadow next to the concert meadow is full of people even though they can'

green streets, and city build, along with rhonda and her executive directorship. lena miller from hunter's point. bayview, ymca, and the multi-purpose center center. these are people who have been part of this great administration along with the house authorities and the redevelopment agencies. but i think the most thanks again comes back to the residents here, the residents of alice griffin. the people who have helped put this opportunity center together saying how do we bring hope? how do we put a muriel on there that expresses these kid's hopes to have a better future? how do we do that? we begin by now, you know you have a mayor that will be spending all day and all night, as long as i can come to deliver on this promise because that is what we do here in san francisco. that is how we build partnerships, how we get our elected officials to be on the same page with all of us working together, but it begins with residents here, sharing in that, believing in it. that is why those interviews resulted in $38.5 million. i go along with carlos and hydra through our s

has for what it can do for building local renewable generation in our city and the economic boost that would bring and the green careers it could provide and all of that, that it could bring. the city, we do see we really do need to have the preparatory work of planning the local buildout to be happening now seriously so it can operate in parallel to inform the procurement process and be working in parallel with that. so we hope that the s.f. p.u.c. will get the special meeting. actually, we're encouraging the p.u.c. to get that special meeting scheduled for august so it doesn't have to be delayed any longer. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioners. josh arsey with bright line. i wanted to echo the same sentiments with as far as the term sheet being in a place where it should go from the p.u.c. to the board of supervisors, whatever you can do today to help make that happen. the special meeting, the letter, anything you can do, i think it's time to do that and just commissioner mirkarimi's point, i'm on the renewable task force that was mentioned with jason freed a